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Workshop urban node Gothenburg Summary report on outcomes and conclusions Thursday 12 April 2018 Scandic Crown Hotel Polhemsplatsen 3, 411 11 Gothenburg, Sweden Version: 1.0 Date: 23.05.2018 Authors: Steven Meijlof and Kevin van der Linden The sole responsibility for the content of this document lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither the EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769458 Table of contents 1 Introduction Vital Nodes project and approach ....................... 3 2 Typology and identified challenges of Gothenburg ................ 4 2.1 Context .......................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Challenges ..................................................................................................... 5 2.2.1 What is a vital urban node? ...............................................................................5 2.2.2 Competing transport flows .................................................................................6 2.2.3 Barriers in the urban area ..................................................................................7 2.2.4 Conflicting interest between growth and coexistence .........................................8 2.2.5 Accessibility of Gothenburg Landvetter Airport ..................................................9 2.2.6 Coordination & cooperation among areas of responsibility ................................9 3 Good practices and opportunities identified ......................... 11 4 Lessons learned ....................................................................... 17 Attachments .................................................................................... 19 1. Fingerprint urban node Gothenburg (info graphic) ........................................... 20 2. Good practices Gothenburg with validation of scores ...................................... 26 3. Map corridor level ............................................................................................ 30 4. Map regional / urban node level ....................................................................... 31 5. Map city level ................................................................................................... 32 6. List of participants Gothenburg workshop ........................................................ 33 7. Programme of the Gothenburg workshop ........................................................ 34 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 vitalnodes.eu Page 2 of 34 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769458 Page 2 of 34 h2020-coexist.eu 1 Introduction Vital Nodes project and approach The workshop in the urban node Gothenburg was organized on the 12th of April in 2018. It is part of the Vital Nodes project – a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) executed under the European Commission’s Horizon2020 programme. Vital Nodes aims at enabling efficient, sustainable freight delivery across the TEN-T urban nodes (metropolitan areas), by bringing together existing European, national and regional networks of experts and professionals. Vital Nodes will deliver evidence-based recommendations for effective and sustainable integration of the nodes into the TEN-T network corridors, addressing specifically the multi- and intermodal connection between long-distance and last- mile freight logistics. Addressing funding needs (for infrastructure and spatial developments), updating and redefining guidelines for infrastructure investments and funding instruments on European infrastructure. Focussing on integrating long-distance freight and last-mile delivery improving the performance of the urban nodes throughout the entire TEN-T network. It will also support the deployment of innovations in the urban nodes, while establishing a long-lasting European expert network. To get a clear understanding on the status of an urban node a so-called ‘fingerprint’ is developed, including characteristics of the node based on facts and figures (secondary data and stakeholder input) and resulting in key challenges of the urban node Gothenburg. This fingerprint is used as a starting point of the workshop discussion (see the appendix, attachment 1). Goal of this workshop was to: - Come to a common agreement on fingerprint Gothenburg (typology, position of the urban node Gothenburg / facts and figures of the node); - Come to common agreement on key challenges; - Deepen the understanding of the challenges; - Explore solutions for the challenges; - Change the mind-set: thinking on different scales (cross-border/TEN-T corridor, regional/functional area level, local/city level) and dimension, adaptively: balancing choices between short term actions and long term objectives; - Suggest on good practices from Gothenburg. During the Gothenburg workshop specific challenges, drivers, (implementation) barriers and possible solutions/good practices have been discussed. This discussion has been linked to the role of the urban node Gothenburg on the TEN-T corridor and future needs according to this. The identified challenges, solutions and good practices are collected within the Vital Nodes project. They will be input for other urban node workshops and all together form input for recommendation to the European commission. For this it is very important all participants of the workshop add good practices and provide input on their impact. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 vitalnodes.eu Page 3 of 34 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769458 Page 3 of 34 h2020-coexist.eu 2 Typology and identified challenges of Gothenburg 2.1 Context The city of Gothenburg is the second largest city in Sweden and the fifth largest in the Nordic countries. Gothenburg has a population of 560 thousand citizens now. This number is expected to increase to 700 thousand citizens in 2035, while the population of the region (NUTS-3 region Västra Götland) is expected to increase from 1.7 million to 2.0 million persons in 2035. The growth will be mostly facilitated by urban densification, of which the RiverCity Gothenburg is an example. RiverCity Gothenburg envisages an inner city expansion by transforming adjacent former port, industrial and logistics areas located along the river Göta älv. Moreover, the growing suburbs are expected to accommodate part of population growth. The urban node Gothenburg is located on the TEN-T corridor Scandinavian-Mediterranean, on the axis Copenhagen-Oslo. The corridor covers four different modes of transport for both freight and passenger. Trade and shipping, manufacturing (e.g. Volvo) and industry are important sectors for Gothenburg. The port of Gothenburg is of economic importance for the city of Gothenburg and its broader region. The port is seen as the gateway of Scandinavia since it is the largest port of the Nordic countries. The port of Gothenburg is mostly a port of destination, which means that goods arrive in Gothenburg in order to be distributed throughout Scandinavia. Ships arriving in Europe from Asia mostly visit the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and/or Hamburg first and end in Gothenburg. On the other hand, Gothenburg is the origin of goods transported to Europe and Asia for – for example – the manufacturing industry of Volvo. Freight is transported by trucks on highways crossing the city parallel to the Göta älv river, by rail competing with commuter flows and by boats to lake Vänern. Transports meet in a concentrated area around the E6, the central railway station and the Göta älv river in the centre of Gothenburg and competes with the interests of city development and the desire to create an attractive and liveable city. Beside the port there are six intermodal freight terminals (Terminal Masthugget, Logent Ports & Terminals, APM Container Terminal, Centralharpan, Alvsborgs RoRo and Arken Multimodal Terminal) connecting sea-rail-inland waterways. There is also one rail terminal (Göteborg Gullbergsvass kombiterminal). The node is connected to the west (to Hamburg and globally) by sea. To the east the port serves as an inland shipping node (via lake Vänern) and is also connected by rail (Västra Strambanen). Freight and passenger transport uses the same rail track. To the north, east and south the city of Gothenburg is connected by road via the national ways E45, E20, E6 and highway 40. All the connections are crossing each other in the centre and they are crossing the centre of the node Gothenburg as well, causing a possible bottleneck of the network. Besides, Gothenburg has one freight and passenger airport 20 km away from the city centre (Göteborg Landvetter). This airport is also connected via the national ways riksväg 27/40. There is no railway connected to the airport. The fingerprint of Gothenburg and the additional maps can be found in the appendix – attachment 1, 2, 3 and 4. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 vitalnodes.eu Page 4 of 34 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769458 Page 4 of 34 h2020-coexist.eu 2.2 Challenges Based on the preparatory analysis the following challenges were seen: - There is a conflicting interest between growth and coexistence (growing population and lack of housing and